How well do you know your 1984 albums?

[Fairwrning]

I didnt cheat..Call to your heart

[Seshmeister]

So you guys even had the album and didn't get it?

[twonabomber]

I don't have it but I knew of them. Call To The Heart is on Sirius Hair Nation all the time, and that's the video I remembered.

Giuffria was the one band I thought of that was a last name but I looked up the album and kept finding just the black and white cover. Today I saw the one with the red on it.

[vaijuju]

Only thing I can come up with is Craig Goldy and Giuffria.

That cover is from the re-issue! The original is just black and white.

never heared this ! never heared these names, more informations , please!

[twonabomber]

Is your Google broken?

[Seshmeister]

http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interv..._goldy_of_dio/

Songfacts: You also wrote a song with David Lee Roth ("Lady Luck" from A Little Ain't Enough).

Craig: Yeah. He was a great guy. It actually came from a failure, which often happens. Me and David Isley from Giuffria were working on a project, and Geffen Records had given us some money to go into the studio. We wrote some songs and then they passed on it, so I sent those songs to Warner Brothers to see if maybe one of these songs might be used for another project or band, and it sat around for a couple of years.

Next thing I know I get a call from David Lee Roth at my home. He goes, "Hey, Dave Roth here. Is this Craig? Hey, I liked your shit, man. Can we do some more? Have you got any more?" I'm like, "Yeah, I've got tons of stuff." "What about Wednesday?" It was Monday. I go, "Yeah." I didn't have anything. [Laughs] So I just scrambled. I went and bought his solo albums. I think mine was the third. And so I didn't duplicate. Because some guys, you never know, you accidentally do something similar and they'll, you know. So I made sure that none of the stuff he did with Steve Vai or any of that stuff was similar. Not putting myself in the same category as Steve Vai, just didn't want to accidentally reproduce something that he's already done.

So I came up with a couple of cool riffs, and then showed up at his house with Bob Ezrin, who worked with everybody. But at the time it was the Pink Floyd thing that got me [Ezrin co-produced Pink Floyd's The Wall]. I was like, "Wow, David Lee Roth and Bob Ezrin!"

I was playing him some stuff and he stops the tape and he goes, "That's cool, man, that's great. Let's do that." So he would have me come to his house and play the ideas, and his band would be there and they'd learn my stuff and rehearse it for him to record. We wrote a bunch of songs and I thought what he did was really smart. He wrote about 25 songs and then recorded each and every one of them, demoed them off. That's one other hurdle that a lot of people miss, is that you write a great song, and then when you record it, something happens, and it doesn't come out as special as you think it's going to for whatever reason. So he got that process out of the way: whatever rose to the top, he used, regardless. I thought that was really smart. I'm sure a lot of people do that, but I didn't know that process at the time, and I was just going through my thing at the time learning all those songs and stuff.

So we spent some time together. We became kind of friends, and he'd invite me out to do stuff and we'd hang out at his house afterwards and talk. He was a great guy, and he was very polite and very funny. He was definitely "David Lee Roth." That was not a cartoon character he created for his stage presence. That was just who he was. But he was very smart and caring behind the scenes.

[vaijuju]

thanks sehsmeister ! I'm not at my home! does Craig is credited on the CD with dave ?

[cadaverdog]

I would have never got that. Never heard of them or him or it. I don't think it's cheating to search for an album cover if you have no idea who's album it is. If you've never seen it there's no way you're going to figure it out if you don't.

[Seshmeister]

thanks sehsmeister ! I'm not at my home! does Craig is credited on the CD with dave ?

Yes he gets a co-writing credit on that one song.

[cadaverdog]

You sure that's not a bunch of long haired dudes lip syncing a Survivor tune?

[twonabomber]

FORD will be along soon to declare that is "cheese."

Reminded me of Journey the first time I heard it.

[FORD]

Guiffria was a spin off of 70's glam band "Angel". Those guys invented cheese long before Journey ever thought of hiring a pussy like Jonathan Cain.

[twonabomber]

Don't forget about this "connection:"

Production had to be rushed on Van Halen, because Eddie had mistakenly let the band Angel hear You Really Got Me at drummer Barry Brandt’s house before the album was finished. Both bands raced to put out their own cover of the song.

[Seshmeister]

That whole fashion of playing a different keyboard with each hand on either side of you was ridiculous.

[Seshmeister]

Don't forget about this "connection:"

Forgot that was Angel, their version would have been shit anyway.

[twonabomber]

That whole fashion of playing a different keyboard with each hand on either side of you was ridiculous.

I have been setting up my 'boards in different configurations, tried that setup but didn't like it. Will probably go with an "L."

[cadaverdog]

That whole fashion of playing a different keyboard with each hand on either side of you was ridiculous.

Not a big fan of the keyboard but they work in some songs. I prefer piano.

[Seshmeister]

I guess it was so he wasn't hidden behind them and you could see his ridiculous costumes. An L is far more sensible.

I think the most keyboards I ever played live was 3 and that would be 2 in front of me and one to the side.

[cadaverdog]

They're cheesy but this song's not as cheesy as the one I posted from Guiffra.

[twonabomber]

I guess it was so he wasn't hidden behind them and you could see his ridiculous costumes. An L is far more sensible.

That was pre- or very early in the time of MIDI. Want two sounds now? Just stack 'em up on the same MIDI channel.

I think the most keyboards I ever played live was 3 and that would be 2 in front of me and one to the side.

I'm trying to figure out which four boards I want on my two Deltex stands. This isn't even live, it's just to play at home! At least two will be controlling modules in a rack, and I gotta figure out where I want that.

[ashstralia]

That 'call to your heart' video is impossibly ghey.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Angel was pretty corny, but they did manage to put out a couple of albums in the 70s that were not bad.

[cadaverdog]

Angel was pretty corny, but they did manage to put out a couple of albums in the 70s that were not bad.

In other words they were mediocre. I saw something interesting about the origins of Angel. The lead guitarist Punky Meadows was previously in a band called The Cherry People. The Cherry People were "discovered" playing a gig at New York's Cafe Wha?. I'm sure most of the members of this site know Cafe Wha was owned By Diamond Dave's uncle Manny Roth. They put out one album in 1968 but the members weren't happy with it because of it's bubble gum sound. Here's an example of that.

[Mr. Vengeance]

In other words they were mediocre. I saw something interesting about the origins of Angel. The lead guitarist Punky Meadows was previously in a band called The Cherry People. The Cherry People were "discovered" playing a gig at New York's Cafe Wha?. I'm sure most of the members of this site know Cafe Wha was owned By Diamond Dave's uncle Manny Roth. They put out one album in 1968 but the members weren't happy with it because of it's bubble gum sound. Here's an example of that.

Interesting tidbit.

[qikgts]

Late to the party with 15/20... I guessed good on several...

[Seshmeister]

That 'call to your heart' video is impossibly ghey.

It's horrendous.
I had this on a mixtape back in the day which isn't quite as bad, maybe below par UFO?



In my defence was a kid playing keyboards in a heavy rock band at the time. I gave up because I came to the conclusion I didn't like keyboards in heavy rock especially the ones I could afford.

[cadaverdog]

In my defense I was a kid playing keyboards in a heavy rock band at the time. I gave up because I came to the conclusion I didn't like keyboards in heavy rock especially the ones I could afford.

I'm not a big fan of keyboards either but they work in some hard rock songs like No Quarter and Inna Gadda Da Vida. I sang in a garage band in junior high. They asked me to sing after they heard me singing in the boys glee club. The other guys were pretty good but I was a mediocre singer at best before my voice started changing. They tried some other guys before me but they could never remember the lyrics to the songs and they'd run out of breath because they had no formal training.